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More essential reading for Saturday morning (time for a second cuppa), this time about the relationship between news and online communities [http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/newspapers-get-the-kind-of-communities-they-deserve/] : > Our comments routinely point us in the direction of new angles for stories, and in many cases commenters have become sources
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This cropped up in a post aboutthe latest improvements to Typepad [http://everything.typepad.com/blog/2009/09/movin-on-up-typepad-news-and-release-notes.html] : > Improved comment experience > [![Comment-form-icons-typepad]( "Comment-form-icons-typepad")](http://everything.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c82369e20120a5d7c8a1970c-pi) > Based on some impressive performance on the beta blogs, we have added a few
admin
From this post onwards, Iāve replaced the commenting system on this blog with the [Disqus Comments](http://disqus.com/comments/) system. Disqus is one of the breed of external comment providers that have become popular in the last year or so, that include Automatticās [Intense Debate](http://intensedebate.
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Good stuff Iāve read recently, havenāt linked to yet, but donāt have much to add to right now: * The Nichepaper Manifesto [http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/07/the_nichepaper_manifesto.html] ā an articulate and well argued guide to how niche publishing might looks going forwards. * Media
commenters
So, back in the office. First proper day back at work, and despite a few of last yearās niggle raising their heads again, Iām still pretty positive about the year ahead ā and looking forward to some new challenges that are on the horizon. More on that when I
berlin
Flow apps:- [Snackr](http://snackr.net/)Ā ā flow app for Google Reader - [Twhirl](http://www.twhirl.org/)Ā ā flow app for Twitter, FriendFeed and others - [FriendFeed](http://www.friendfeed.com)Ā andĀ [Flickr](http://www.flickr.com)Ā have just added flow feeds.Net result: hugeĀ fragmentation of existing blog communities
Automattic
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2008/09/intensedebate-automattic_blog.png] An e-mail was waiting for me when I got home, announcing that [Automattic has acquired Intense Debate](http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/2008/09/23/automattic-acquires-intensedebate/). For those not familiar with it, [Intense Debat](http://www.
coComment
So, remember the issue with [coComment](http://www.cocomment.com/) and Movable Type we discovered yesterday? coComment have fixed it already.They picked up my issue [on Twitter](http://twitter.com/coComment/statuses/930516765), and were quickly responding in [the comments on my blog](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2008/
coComment
Thanks to a heads-up from Paul [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/], Iāve just discovered that coComment [http://www.cocomment.com/] blocks commenting on this blog. People using the coComment Firefox extension [http://www.cocomment.com/tools/capture] will not be able to comment here at all if theyāre using any
ambient intimacy
What I liked and enjoyed in my morningās RSS reading:- Paul at the Online Journalism Blog proves that [it never pays to ignore or censor comments](http://onlinejournalismblog.com/
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Finally, itās all explained: Local Idiot to Post Comment on The Internet [http://engagement101.blogspot.com/2008/08/local-idiot-to-post-comment-on-internet.html] . (Personally, I suspect he posts on Comment is Free [http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.
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Iām inclined to believe that these reactions are born of three things: 1. **The lack of defined community around national newspapers. **This leads to a lack of consequences. You arenāt discussing with your peers or neighbours, but with random strangers. Misbehaviour has no particular social consequence. The worse
